ArtFlow: Paint Draw Sketchbook

Contains adsIn-app purchases
3.7
33.8K reviews
5M+
Downloads
Content rating
PEGI 3
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About this app

Convert your device into a digital sketchbook with more than 80 paint brushes, smudge, fill and an eraser tool. This fast and intuitive painting and drawing application will unlock the full power of your imagination. With support for pressure sensitive pens (like Samsung's S Pen) your device will be transformed into a real canvas.

Important: this is a free application with advanced features requiring a pro license in-app purchase. Single licence purchase will activate all devices associated with your Google account.

Features (some functions require pro license):
• High performance (GPU accelerated) paint engine
• Canvases up to 6144x6144 with 50 layers*
• Stylus pressure support
• Pressure simulation for touches
• 100+ brushes and tools (including smudge tool and gradient fill)
• Create custom brushes from imported images
• Selection and selection masks
• Layer clipping mask
• 10 layer filters (HSV adjust, brightness & saturation, color curves and more)
• Material design inspired, fast, fluid, intuitive and accessible user interface
• Import and export supports PNG, JPG and PSD (Photoshop Document)
• NVIDIA DirectStylus support
• Palm rejection - no more accidental zooming and panning when drawing

*) depending on device and available memory
†) some devices are incompatible with pressure simulation and palm rejection


You can paint, sketch and draw with ease thanks to fast and fluid brush engine. ArtFlow aims to replace your physical sketchpad and become universal art studio type application for Android™.


Artworks by:
Oleg Stepanko (https://instagram.com/rwidon)
Miguel Alvarado (https://www.instagram.com/3d.mike)
David Rivera (http://www.facebook.com/BlownHand)
Jon Mietling Portal Dragon (http://portaldragon.com)
Rob Pennycook
Marco Hurtado
Joel Ukeni (https://www.instagram.com/j.ukeni/)
Enrico Natoli
Andrew Easter
Andrei Lanuza (http://plus.google.com/+AndreiLanuza)
David Mingorance (http://davidmingorance.weebly.com)
EB Leung
Geremy Arene (http://www.youtube.com/geremy902)
ViBu (http://candynjuice.blogspot.com)
Oskar Stalberg


Unlicensed version limitation:
• 20 basic tools
• 3 layers
• Undo limited to 6 steps
• No PSD export
Updated on
24 Jul 2025

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
This app may share these data types with third parties
Personal info and Device or other IDs
This app may collect these data types
Personal info and Device or other IDs
Data is encrypted in transit
Data can’t be deleted

Ratings and reviews

3.9
20.9K reviews
Sarrah Settarra
22 August 2025
This was my go-to app for drawing for over a decade. I loved it! But it has gone way downhill recently. I've lost work in the middle of drawing more than once. The worst was losing 24 hours of work as I was exporting the finished file. It was GONE. After that, I had to resort to saving my layers every hour or so in order to recover lost work. I tried to no avail find the temp files many times. I even got a new tablet. I've finally given up and am now relearning a different app.
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Florian Nsalah (Sharkcapp)
7 August 2025
Pretty good drawing app, however: 1) Drawing tools randomly stop drawing, restarting app/ phone doesn't help. thought it was tied to an ad cus it happened after watching the ad, but after reinstalling the app it randomly occured again while I was just drawing. 2) There's no option to paste PNG into your project. 3) There's an "export" option upon clicking the three bars while you're on a project, but there is no "import". The import is only visible when clicking the plus button in the gallery.
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Extra Neatro
20 August 2025
(2025 update) Even after all these years, it's still amazing that this art app still works as great as it does, even with and without S-pen! Only wish that the maximum brush-size limit could be increased. Aswell as the maximum amount of layers (original review, 2021) Amazing, no problems and does everything you pretty much need.
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What's new

Play Billing library update to v8.0.0
Supported android version update (target SDK level update)